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We are from NZ

Our home is in the Waikato of New Zealand where we are spoilt by nature. It’s natural farming country. This is where we farm our goats. And it’s only a short day’s drive from our farms to our plant where we dry their fresh milk.

Our Farms

Dairy Goat Co-operative is owned by our 72 goat farmers whose farms are in some of New Zealand’s richest pastures. At the farms we are feeding our goats breakfast, lunch and dinner, and milking at day’s break and day’s end. There’s lots to do. Click below to visit one of our farms.

On the farm

On a normal morning we are up at 5.30am, changing the goats’ bedding and feed, and milking. We have a small lab on the farm so that we can test our milk samples and individual goats. Our goal is to produce the best quality milk we can.

Our home

This is where around 200 of us make sure the goats’ milk gets treated right and makes its way safely to all the corners of the world we export to. We built this plant from scratch and every part has been designed just to make goats’ milk infant formula.

DGC has end to end production facilities on its site in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Milk is collected from our farms and delivered directly to the production facility. We take great care for our milk, ensuring a consistently lower temperature at all times by insulating our milk trucks. This helps maintain the nutritional integrity of our Goat Milk at all times during transit.
When the whole goat milk is delivered to the site it is checked again for quality before it is processed.

The milk that enters the DGC facility leaves as goat milk formula, in the can that is then sold to our partners’ customers. To ensure the safest possible production system, every element of the production is managed within our single site.

New Zealand has a strict Code of Welfare for Goats. It specifies what is considered to be optimal animal welfare and how this may be achieved for goats farmed under New Zealand conditions. DGC farms are required to follow the New Zealand Code of Welfare for Goats as well as DGC’s own Code of Farm Practice.

We are a co-operative, owned by the farmers who supply goat milk. We believe in the enduring value of the co-operative model and our objective is to grow the wealth and security of our farmer shareholders, while at the same time providing consumers with a world-leading premium quality product.

Co-operative is also a word we use to describe our business style, which is built around sustainable and long-term relationships with our partners.

We believe that goat milk is the best base from which to make infant formula. It is not the cheapest, or the most commonly available, but we do believe it is the best.

We take our responsibility seriously to deliver safe and effective nutrition to infants and young children all around the world, and to deliver brands and products that parents trust.